NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN WOMEN 799

peace throughout the world. The Republican Party offers the Ameri-
can people a fresh path to peace through principle, not compromise
forged from past failures.

We live in the best of times and the worst of times. Our problems
are deep and desperate. Yet we have available greater resources and
more knowledge than any people at any time in the history of the
world. With new leadership to interpret change and inspire policy,
we shall have a new perspective. I do not underestimate the deter-
mination of the American people. We may be temporarily confused
by overwhelming circumstances, but we will not collapse. We will
not surrender to the forces of communism abroad or chaos at home.

But our national confidence will only return when we can honestly
see and say "we are in command" — that we are acting upon and not
reacting to intolerable conditions. The present Democratic Party
leadership has lost the nation's confidence but this does not imply
that the Republican Party will automatically win it.

We must work for it and we will need every hand available. No
one can afford to sit this election out — particularly you, our Repub-
lican women. We may on occasion, in well-meaning gallantry, em-
phasize your good looks or charm or the glamour you give to a cam-
paign as comprising your greatest contribution. But I can tell you
right now — we don't mean it for a moment. We value your strength,
your endurance, your endless dedication to all the vital functions
necessary to keep a campaign running smoothly. We need the office
volunteer, the strategist, the precinct captain and the tactician whose
service is inspired by conviction. And this is you. This year, as never
before, your help is needed, not only to support a great party but a
great cause. This year victory is imperative not only to serve the in-
terests of our party but our nation.

Perhaps our chance has never been greater but neither has our
challenge. And I do not mean just the challenge and the chance to
win. I mean the challenge to propose creative, impressive alternatives
to present national policies — and the chance to change the tragic
course our country has taken.

In the 1968 election, I believe the stake is nothing less than sur-
vival — not of the Republican Party — but of America as "one nation,
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. "